mingen

1,7 laps around Mingen before I went to work. It was almost dark when I started, one or two degrees cold in the air. Not so much light outside nowadays, but more than I can get when I´m inside.
I also passed Björköfjärden which had a nice little layer of thin ice, looks good for the weekend.

It´s like standing in a jungle!

Storsjön, leader today

The ice we checked yesterday we took the group to today. we skated all three lakes, starting in the middle. Altogether with the leaders we were 20 persons skating 22 km. The weather was more okay today, the sun almost came through. It was my first leadertrip today, and I think it was okay.
Afterwards me and M took a stop at Bölesjön and skated one lap there to. If I don´t count my stomach, today was a really nice day out. We had a thin layer of snow on the ice today, the weatherforecast doesn´t show anymore snow next week, but I showes cold weather!..:-)
We met mr Ice from the north, and today was his ninth trip, that would be more than possible to reach if you don´t have to work daytime and in the weekends.
Hopefully I can go out tomorrow also...
Today it was 22km + some more on the next lake.

my feets when I´m skating

storsjön

I went to Storsjön north of Timrå, we did skate on the tre parts of it, with some of the other iceskateleaders, there were M, P, J, R and J and me. Today it started snowing, and the latest days have been pretty warm so the ice was covered with a slush from water and snow. Due to the warm weather it also sounded pretty high though it was between 42mm and 65 mm. I didn´t like the sounding parts so much, because I didn´t want to take a bath. I didn´t have to because today the ice was thick enough for us, except for some holes two different people fell on two places.
22 km was showned on the GPS, no sun, around 0 degrees.

Here I skates.

I´m pointing out a hole in the ice, the ice is weaker because there is a stone under the surface which gives us some warmer water there

Lake spotting

I´ve been thinking about starting lake spotting, setting up rules and start to collect small,medium and large lakes. Do I count the sea? Well what we call the sea is really just a big lake in Östersjön.
Well that´t about what my mind is circling around now when typing. Yesterday was another day, a beautiful day, some degrees minus, good tasting sandwich, a cup of hot drink and iceskating! Such a pity I was working at Saturday and today otherwise I would have been out more. No tears over that, I had a wonderful day out in the sunlight. Even the moon was awesome up and looking at us!

Lake two this season in lakespotting was Eksjön

I was beeing chased by a sword..;-)


The moon watching.




a man among the seeweed...

First time this season

First time this season! I´m happy over this trip around the small lake Bölesjön. Two laps and a cup of coffee.
The ice was singing to us in high tunes, which indicates that it´s not so thick. Although it was thick enough to us! I´m looking forward to coming trips.


Årets första skridskotur! :-) Det knakade så in i vassen nära vassen och litegrann knak i ”sundet” i sjöns södra ände. Men isen höll för oss. Utrustningen är nu testad och inställd, termosen uppvärmd, vilket bådar gott för kommande turer!